Posts Tagged ‘Ted Kheel’

Who Says Free Transit?

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Recently, we posed the question: Could congestion pricing lead to free transit?

Civic activist and noted labor relations attorney Ted Kheel, and energy-policy analyst and transport economist Charles Komanoff, promise commuters in the NYC area free buses, drastically reduced subway fares, reduced peak-hour congestion, faster bus service and more. They used their “Balanced Transportation Analyzer (BTA)”

In this video, Komanoff explains the BTA, with an introduction by “Gridlock Sam” Schwartz, the noted traffic and transportation engineer.

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Posted in Congestion, Local, Policy, The Infra Blog, Transit, Urban Planning

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New York: Could congestion pricing lead to free transit? See for yourself, with the Balanced Transportation Analyzer

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Put forth by civic activist and noted labor relations attorney Ted Kheel, and energy-policy analyst and transport economist Charles Komanoff, the Kheel-Komanoff Plan promises commuters in the NYC area free buses, drastically reduced subway fares, reduced peak-hour congestion, faster bus service and more.

How did Kheel and Komanoff find their perfect balance? They used the “Balanced Transportation Analyzer (BTA)”, a modeling system (of their own design) that takes into account dozens of variables and predicts their effect on the daily commute…

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Posted in Congestion, Funding, Local, Public Transportation, The Infra Blog, Transit, Urban Planning

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